{"product_id":"wedding-readings-isbn-9780140088793","title":"Wedding Readings","description":"This rich collection of writings on the nature of love and commitment has long delighted brides and grooms of every denomination. Culled from both sacred and secular texts, and suitable for either traditional or informal wedding ceremonies, these selections might be included in Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, interfaith, and non-denominational exchanges of vows. \u003cp\u003eAmong the passages appropriate for readings by parents, friends, or the bride and groom are selections from Plato and Sappho, Rilke and Auden, Ecclesiastes and Euripedes, Shakespeare and Donne, pascal and Montaigne, Emily Dickinson and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. There are love songs from the Aztecs and Eskimos, Hindu and African wedding prayers, a Buddhist marriage homily, a Shaker hymn, and Irish blessing, excerpts from Coptic Orthodox and Greek Orthodox marriage services, and passages from the Old and New Testaments, some familiar, some surprising. With myriad choices, \u003cb\u003eWedding Readings\u003c\/b\u003e will help you add a special, personal touch to your marriage ceremony.\u003c\/p\u003eWedding Readings\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendell Berry, from \"The Country of Marriage\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Morrow Lindbergh, from \u003ci\u003eBring Me a Unicorn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \"Simple Gifts, \" a Shaker hymn\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. The Time Is Come\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAncient Greek dedications to brides\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreamble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRevelation 3:8 (New English Bible)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsaiah 61:10-11 (New English Bible)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEcclesiastes 4:7-13 (New English Bible)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEuripides\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Herbert, from \"Easter\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Dickens\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Herrick, \"Love Me Little, Love Me Long\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRainer Maria Rilke\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eLetters to a young Poet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eFirst Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChippewa song\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson, from \"A Night Among the Pines\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Joyce, poem XIII from \u003ci\u003eChamber Music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eE. M. Forster, from \u003ci\u003eA Room with a View\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Cambell, from \u003ci\u003eThe Hero with a Thousand Faces\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Valéry\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Morrow Lindbergh from \u003ci\u003eBring Me a Unicorn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRandall Jarrell, from \"A Man Meets a Woman in the Street\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGabriela Mistral, God Wills It\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelmore Schwartz, \"Will you perhaps consent to be\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan Dugan, \"Love Song: I and Thou\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJosé Garcia Villa, from \u003ci\u003eHave Come, Am Here\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Creeley, \"Kore\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMadame LePrince De Beaumont, from Beauty and the Beast\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKenneth Rexroth, from \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Poems from the Japanese\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. In Search of Love\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouise Bogan, from \u003ci\u003eJourney Around My Room\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreamble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlato, from the \u003ci\u003eSymposium\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Corinthians 13 (King James Version)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI Corinthians 13:4-8a (New English Bible)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaruch Spinoza\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily Dickinson, from the \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003enumber 611\u003cbr\u003enumber 917\u003cbr\u003enumber 1155\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Shakespeare, \u003ci\u003eSonnets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVIII\u003cbr\u003eXXX\u003cbr\u003eXXXI\u003cbr\u003eCXVI\u003cbr\u003eCVI\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerbert Spencer, from \u003ci\u003eThe Principles of Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlaise Pascal, from \"On the Passion of the Soul\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKenneth Rexroth, from \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Poems from the Japanese\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Keats, letters to Fanny Brawne\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward FitzGerald, from \u003ci\u003eThe Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew Arnold, from \"Dover Beach\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Give All to Love\"\u003cbr\u003efrom the essay \"Love\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily Brontë, from \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdgar Allan Poe, from \"Annabel Lee\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarcel Proust, from \u003ci\u003eThe Past Recaptured\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRainer Maria Rilke, from \u003ci\u003eLetters to a Young Poet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEzra Pound\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Cantos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"??PIA\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Baldwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Ignatieff, from \"Lodged in the Heart and Memory\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Creeley, \"The Language\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWallace Stevens, from \"Of Modern Poetry\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. The Processional Begins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a Moravian hymn\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreamble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth 1:16-17 (King James Version)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsaiah 42:16 (New English Bible)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuda Shaarawi, from \u003ci\u003eHarem Years: Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Donne, from \"Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Browning, from \"Rabbi Ben Ezra\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuan Ramón Jiménez, \"Oceans\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSaint-Jean Perse, from \"Drouth\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalt Whitman\u003cbr\u003e\"Darest Thou Now O Soul\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?\"\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Song of the Open Road\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eD. H. Lawrence\u003cbr\u003e\"Change\u003cbr\u003e\"Phoenix\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Bavarian Gentians\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerard Manley Hopkins, \"At the Wedding March\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Morrow Lindbergh, from \u003ci\u003eGift from the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouise Glück, \"Under Taurus\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntonio Machado, from \"Rebirth\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Matthiessen, from the \u003ci\u003eThe Snow Leopard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Ashbery, from \"The Skaters\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouise Bogan, \"Henceforth, from the Mind\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntoine De Saint-Exupéry, from \u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. Eternal Vows in Sacred Space\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJalal Al-Din Rumi, Persion love poem\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreamble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir James George Frazer, from \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErnest Crawley, from \u003ci\u003eThe Mystic Rose: A Study of Primitive Marriage and of Primitive Thought in Its Bearing on Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \"Terumah,\" in the \u003ci\u003eZohar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarge Piercy, \"The Chuppah\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHebrew \"Seven Blessings\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip and Hanna Goodman, \"The Sabbath as Bride\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \"Lekhah Dodi,\" Hebrew hymn to the Sabbath as a bride\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePsalms (King James Version)\u003cbr\u003efrom Psalm 98\u003cbr\u003ePsalm 100\u003cbr\u003efrom Psalm 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHebrew blessing for Sabbath end\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudah Halevi, from a poem to the bridegroom\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeremiah 33:10-11 (King James Version)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \"The Celebration and Blessing of a Marriage,\" in \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Common Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e (Episcopal)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWedding prayer from the \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Common Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the apocryphal Acts of Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEphesians 4:25-32 (New English Bible)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew 19:4-6 (New English Bible)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI John 4:7-12 (New English Bible)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColossians 3:12-17 (New English Bible)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Greek Orthodox marriage service\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Coptic Orthodox marriage service\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Hindu marriage ritual of \"Seven Steps\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHindu wedding prayer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuddhist marriage homily\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJalal al-din Rumi, Persian love poem\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Herrick, \"To Julia\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeoffrey Chaucer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdmund Spenser, from \"Epithalamion\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdgar Allen Poe, from \"The Bells\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet XXII from \u003ci\u003eSonnets from the Portuguese\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTemple Gairdner, prayer before his marriage\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA. E. Housman, from \"Epithalamium\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIris Murdoch, from \u003ci\u003eThe Book and the Brotherhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Butler Yeats, from \"A Prayer for My Daughter\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGertrude Stein, from \"Patriarchal Poetry\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eV. The Miracle of the Body\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDevara Dasimayya, poem to Lord Siva (Ramanatha)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreamble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreek prayer to Priapus\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSappho\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmily Dickinson, from \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003enumber 249\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAztec love song\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Song of Solomon (King James Version), set as a play\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom an ancient Sumerian sacred-wedding poem\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVidyapati, Hindu love poem\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHindu love poem\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"On Kissing,\" from \u003ci\u003eThe Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael De Montaigne, from  \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Blake\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Infant Joy\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Lowell, \"A Decade\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eH.D., \"Evadne\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDylan Thomas, \"On the Marriage of a Virgin\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eE. E. Cummings\u003cbr\u003epoems from \"Amores\"\u003cbr\u003e\"somewhere i have never travelled\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOctavio Paz, from \"Sunstone\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDenise Levertov\u003cbr\u003e\"The Ache of Marriage\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A Psalm Praising the Hair of Man's Body\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Song for a Dark Voice\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHalina Po´swiatowska\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKenneth Patchen, \"There Is Nothing False in Thee\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Sexton, from \"Us\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip Larkin, \"Wedding Wind\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW. H. Auden, from \"Lay Your Sleeping Head\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePablo Neruda\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharon Olds, \"I Love It When\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendell Berry, \"The Mad Farmer's Love Song\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKenneth Rexroth, \"The Old Song and Dance\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVI. The Country of Marriage\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Cheever, from \"The Country Husband\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreamble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHecaton of Rhodes\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eWisdom of Ben Sira\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJalal al-Din Rumi, Persian love poem\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnonymous\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSir Philip Sidney, \"My True Love Hath My Heart\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSappho, poems\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurkoman love song\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfghan love song\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLi Tai Po, \"Song on the River\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTu Fu, \"On the River Tchou\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMadame Kuan\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Simple Gifts,\" a Shaker hymn\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnonymous\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnonymous\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Donne\u003cbr\u003efrom \"The Anniversarie\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Good-Morrow\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristine de Pisan, \"In Praise of Marriage\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Herbert, \"A Wreath\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnonymous\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnonymous\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Bradstreet, \"To my Dear and loving Husband\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Marlowe, \"The Passionate Shepherd to his Love\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatherine Philips, from \"To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristina Rossetti, from \"Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDante Gabriel Rossetti, from \"The House of Life\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGustave Flaubert, from \u003ci\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Barrett Browning, from \u003ci\u003eSonnets from the Portuguese\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSonnet XIV\u003cbr\u003eSonnet XLIII\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Eliot\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson, from \u003ci\u003eVirginibus Puerisque\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Butler Yeats, from \"When You Are Old\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDenis De Rougemont, from \u003ci\u003eLove in the Western World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBertrand Russell, from \u003ci\u003eMarriage and Morals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimone De Beauvoir, from \u003ci\u003eThe Second Sex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Van Doren\u003cbr\u003e\"Marriage\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Slowly, Slowly Wisdom Gathers\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW. H. Auden\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetty Friedan, from \u003ci\u003eThe Feminine Mystique\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Keller, from \"Afternoon, in a Back Yard on Chestnut Street\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraham Greene, from \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of the Matter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOgden Nash, \"Tin Wedding Whistle\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Berryman, from \"Canto Amor\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSylvia Ashton-Warner, from \u003ci\u003eMyself\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenée Haenel Levine, letter to her daughter\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouise Glück, \"The Undertaking\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheodore Roethke\u003cbr\u003e\"I Knew a Woman\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Wish for a Young Wife\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouise Bogan\u003cbr\u003e\"To Be Sung on the Water\"\u003cbr\u003efrom \"After the Persian\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarianne Moore, from \"Marriage\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchibald MacLeish, \"Poem in Prose\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel Menashe\u003cbr\u003e\"Whose Name I Know\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Many Named\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A-\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaxine Kumin, \"Homecoming\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWillaim Jay Smith, \"Song for a Country Wedding\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhyllis Rose, from \u003ci\u003eParallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMary Stewart Hammond, \"Slow Dancing in the Living Room: Thanksgiving\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendell Berry\u003cbr\u003e\"Marriage\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A Homecoming\"\u003cbr\u003efrom \"The Country of Marriage\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVII. Morning in Eternal Space\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Agee, from \u003ci\u003eLet Us Now Praise Famous men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreamble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePercy Bysshe Shelley, \"Love's Philosophy\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Keats, from \"Endymion\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eC. Day Lewis, from \"Live You by Love\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDenise Levertov, \"The Depths\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouise Bogan, \"Song for the Last Act\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHosea 2:14-15; 18-23 (New English Bible)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreek prayer to the god Ayion\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHymn of the Great Plains Indians to the sun\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTanganyikan fishermen's prayer\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrican prayer to the new moon\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinese prayer of thanksgiving\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJapanese invocation to the spirits to protect the Palace\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree Turko- Mongolian prayers\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEskimo love song\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNavajo hymn to the Thunderbird\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlackfoot prayer to the four directions\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinese prayer to the four directions\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinese blessings\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry David Thoreau\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eWalden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCino Da Pistoia, \"Sestina of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Hardy, \"I Found Her Out There\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVincent Van Gogh, from a letter to his brother, Theo\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChief Seattle of the Dwamish Tribe\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrace Schulman, \"Blessed Is the Light\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendell Berry, \"A Marriage, an Elegy\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrish blessing\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley Kunitz, \"Benediction\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmenophis IV (Ikhnaton), hymn to the sun\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Dillard, from \u003ci\u003eHoly the Firm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrican wedding benediction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Lear, from \"The Owl and the Pussycat\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWintu tribe, \"Dream Song\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuggested Readings for Various Members of the Wedding Party\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCredits\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304906019045,"sku":"NP9780140088793","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140088793.jpg?v=1767743719","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/wedding-readings-isbn-9780140088793","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}